Charting EMSA’s course for the next 20 years (day 1)

A good possibility to make the job of a maritime pilot much more visible!

How LUXSPACE uses AIS messages to monitor worldwide shipping traffic

The Louisiade People's Foundation (LPF) has raised serious concern that a Pilotage Service Expression of Interest advertisement has been done without much consultation with the people of the Jomard Passage.

The ship could not slow down and sailed against the Old North Lock - “Alte Schleuse Nord”.

The smart fairway digitalization pilot is a part of the EMMA Extension project that is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme. This summer, 34 smart buoys were installed in the Saimaa deep fairway, which is Finland’s most important inland waterway for merchant shipping.
Safety is enhanced in particular by the fact that the pilots and VTS can adjust the light output of beacons and the rhythm of lights to support the navigation of vessels in poor visibility and weather conditions....

Pilotage is being able to navigate safely into and out of a harbour/anchorage/port knowing where you are at all times, where your hazards are and a safe route in/out. This is particularly useful if you are heading into somewhere new or a challenging/busy area – or both!

Taking the Pilot ashore

The theory of the 'Swiss cheese' model of incident causation and investigation.